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Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)